Israel prepares to invade Gaza
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Israel is preparing to launch a major ground invasion of Gaza, the UK justice secretary is set to announce a controversial plan to address the chronic shortage of space in jails, and Exxon’s $60bn acquisition of a shale company could set off a wave of industry consolidation.
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CORRECTION: An earlier version of today's show wrongly said Israel's Gaza operation in 2014 didn't involve the use of ground forces, whereas there was in fact a ground offensive.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, October 16th, and this is your |
| 0:08.0 | FT News Briefing. The UK government is proposing to send British prisoners to jails in Europe. |
| 0:15.8 | Exxon mobiles purchase of pioneer could reshape the U.S. shale oil industry, and Israel |
| 0:21.8 | is stepping up its offensive in Gaza. |
| 0:25.0 | The Israeli Defense Minister has said this will be a fierce war, a deadly war, a precise |
| 0:29.7 | war, and it will be war that changes the situation permanently. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Sonya Hudson in for Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:52.8 | Israel is preparing to launch a major ground invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas' surprise |
| 0:59.0 | attack last Saturday. Here to talk to me about the situation is the FT's Defense and Security |
| 1:04.6 | correspondent, John Paul Rathbone, HJP. |
| 1:07.8 | Hi. |
| 1:09.8 | So walk us through what's been happening in and around Gaza in the last few days. |
| 1:16.0 | We put the Israeli Air Force has launched a series of heavy and intense bombing strikes. |
| 1:24.2 | The ground forces have been gathering with some hardware on the borders of Gaza. There's |
| 1:29.8 | a siege on Gaza as well, and the Israeli government and army has warned the inhabitants |
| 1:37.0 | of Gaza in the north to move to the south, so the offensive, when if it does come, will |
| 1:43.3 | proceed from north to south. |
| 1:46.2 | And what is the Israeli military hoping to accomplish with this invasion? Like what's |
| 1:51.7 | the end goal here? |
| 1:53.7 | The political instructions are to root out Hamas and extirpate it from Gaza, and those are |
| 2:01.8 | the orders explicitly to the Israeli army, and the Israeli Defense Minister has said this |
| 2:09.0 | will be a fierce war, a deadly war, a precise war, and it will be war that changes the situation |
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